Julia Marchand, independent curator, and Amandine Nana, curator at the Palais de Tokyo. On the occasion of Frank Bowling’s current exhibition in Paris ‘Collage,’ Marchand and Nana will delve into the artist’s work and practice.

The talk will take place on Friday 16 May at 6.30 pm at our Paris gallery and it will be conducted in French. While the event is free to attend, we kindly ask you to RSVP at rsvpparis@hauserwirth.com.

‘Frank Bowling. Collage’ is on view at Hauser & Wirth Paris through Saturday 24 May.

About Julia Marchand
Julia Marchand is a curator, researcher, and journalist based in Venice. She recently curated the Georgian Pavilion at the 60th edition of the International Art Exhibition—La Biennale di Venezia, which focused on illegal astronomy and futuristic poetry. A graduate of the MFA Curating program at Goldsmiths College, she served as curator at the Vincent Van Gogh Foundation from 2015 to 2023. Together with Bice Curiger, she co-organized the exhibitions: ‘Action / Gesture / Paint: Women Artists and Global Abstraction 1940 – 70’ (2023), ‘Nicole Eisenman & The Modern’ (2022), ‘Laura Owens and Vincent van Gogh’ (2021), ‘Pirosmani: Promeneurs entre les Mondes’ (2019), ‘Siècles noirs: James Ensor & Alexander Kluge’ (2019), ‘La Complicité’ (2020), ‘Soleil Chaud, Soleil Tardif’ (2018), ‘La Vie simple – Simplement la Vie’ (2017), and ‘Soufflez de son Souffle,’ which featured works by Frank Bowling.

As artistic director of the Extramentale platform dedicated to adolescence, Julia Marchand has collaborated with Saradibiza on the video game ‘TVSF’ (exhibited at the Centre Pompidou Metz and the Octobre Numérique – Faire Monde Festival), ‘Anaïs-Tohé Commaret’ (Centre d’Art Edouard Manet, Gennevilliers), ‘Mohamed Bourouissa’ (Les Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie), ‘Lisa Yuskavage’ (Zwirner Gallery, Paris), and works by Henry Darger (Sultana Gallery, Paris). In 2020, she organized a symposium on the carnivalesque at the Centre Pompidou with Claire Tancons, Paul B. Preciado, Jenkin v. Zyl, Mathis Collins, and Jean-Baptiste Carobolante. She is currently preparing an exhibition on Iliazd and Marcel Duchamp’s Boîte-en-Valise. She also leads the interview series Everythingism, dedicated to political astronomy, adolescence, and video games with Projets Média, and regularly contributes to lectures and exhibitions at the Beaux-Arts de Paris for students (the next one, on Frank Bowling, will take place on 20 May).

About Amandine Nana
Amandine Nana is a curator at the Palais de Tokyo, as well as an author, poet, and researcher. She has spearheaded major international exhibitions such as ‘Tituba, Who Will Protect Us?’ (Fall 2025), inspired by Maryse Condé and exploring themes of mourning, migration, memory, and ancestry, and ‘Collective Joy – Learning to Blaze!’ (Winter/Spring 2025), a participatory show highlighting joy as a creative, collective act of resistance. Her curatorial practice merges art, research, literature, publishing, learning, and architecture, with a strong focus on marginalized narratives, critical pedagogy, and collaborative methodologies.

Educated in Paris, Dakar, and New York, Amandine holds degrees in Humanities, Art History, and Urban Strategies from institutions such as ENS Ulm, Sorbonne, Columbia University, and Sciences Po Paris. Specialized in African and diasporic studies, she has contributed to projects like ‘Chimurenga Library’ at the Centre Pompidou and conducted archival research at the Théodore Monod Museum in Dakar. She co-founded the ‘Perspectives Africana’ seminar at ENS and founded Transplantation, a Paris-based independent art space and documentary platform focused on Afro-diasporic and immigrant imaginaries. Since 2023, she has served as editor-in-chief of Air Afrique Magazine, and her work has earned recognition through awards from Dauphine University and Maison Chaumet.